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Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
Kansas Farmer

kansas Farmer
| What change is being wrought in tn.
southern states of this union. 1t is every
where aud in every respect. Southern
farmers do not talk OF act as they die
twenty-five years and more ago. Crops
are being diversified; cotton is no longer
king, though more of it is raised now than
in the years of slavery. Agricultural jour
nails have been established in every state.
More wheat Is raised there now than ever
before, more corn, more cattle, sheep,
horses and hogs, more milk, more butter.
Farms are not as large, but they are better
titled and are worth more.
As to manufactures, the change Is almost
beyond belief. Cotton factories, WOOL
mills, iron establishments ap1 GOOD - ,.fn
tns houses have NTH NTH piled wonderfulIy in
nearly every southern state. An exposi
ton is TO be held In Georgia soon, opening
october 10th. The programme issued
shows that Birmingham, Admission, Rome,
Decatur, Sheffield. Talledega, Tallahatta,
Gadsden and other mineral and manufac
turing centers, with thirty counties and
several railroad Companies In the Pied
mont region, will make elaborate col
lective exhibits Of agricultural and indus
trial products, minerals and woods. These
collective exhibits, with thousands of indi
vidual exhibits, will make the largest and
richest exposition of southern resources
ever SEEN One thousand men are at work
providing space to accommodate the ex
hibits.
Every friend Of his country will rejoice
with our southern brethren on the opening
of the exposition, presenting, as 1t will,
fresh and indisputable evidence of southern
DrOsperity.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27
JUDICIAL DISTRICT CONVENTION.

rne Republicans Of the Eighteenth Judicial Dis
ssrt VIII hold o convention for the purpose OF plae
ina IN nomination candidate for judge OF the dis
SFsct The central committee recommend that the
iFnsied by tie county republican central committee
fce holding primaries, viz August Slst.
Each township and waros Will be entitled 10 the
following number OF delegates:
First Wsrd-NiDeteeB dele gates
Second WaTd-Thirteen delegates.
Third Wsrd-Ten delegptes.
Fourth WBTd-FifteeD delegates
Fifth ward-Five delegate
ArSou-Three delegates.
Afzica-Four delegates.
Deinno-Four delegates.
HAsie-F, ur delegates
Erie-Three delegates
8roeley-Six delegates.
Grant Seven delegates.
aasosn Plains. None delegate.
Garden Plains, S-Three dele gates.
Grand hiver-Three delegates
Gypsum-Four delegates.
Nltpos-ThTee delegates
Kechi-Six delegates.
LfncolD-Four delegates,
Hinneha-Three delegates.
Morton Seven delegates.
r;nDescah-Sevrn delegates.
Ohto-Three delegates.
PRyne-Elve delegates.
Park Ell 1o delegates.
Park, W-Tbree delegates.
Rockford, D-Four delegates.
Rockford M-Three delegates.
GAlem-Four delegates
8herman-Four delegates.
CDicn-Ffve delegates.
ytois-Three delegates.
Observation-Disclosures.
WAco-Five delegates.
Valley Center, V. C-Four delegates.
Valley Center S-Three delegates
The district convention will be held In the Grand
Army Hail. Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, the Sd day
Of September, 1857, at $50 a. m.
By order OF the District Central Committee,
q. L. TAYLOR, Chairman.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

An exchange remarks that the Virgin
ians can not locate the spot where Captain
John Smith was to have been killed. A
Richmond man says;
Sometimes we have strong reasons fol
locating the spot at Powhatan,' just be
low the city; then again we think It ought
to be further down the river. Many relic
hunters have Clipped pieces from q big
rock at 'POwhalsn,' believing that they
were securing fragments of the stone upon
which Smiths head was placed to receive
blows from the clubs of the Indians"
Fact is 1t Is matter Of little consequence
where the spot is, and would have been of
but little more had the Indian maid not
interfered and saved him from impending
DEAN, inasmuch as the valiant captain
afterwards manifested the bssest ingrati-
tude toward his benefactress who -
taking her for his wife seperst~' 10, f-.u,
her peonle and friepds and 6nsl,v deserted
her and lesI ner to die among strangers in
q strange land.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

A fourteen year o Id son of Mr.. Barrett,
living north Of Greensburg, had an old
pistol playing with it, when it fell and was
discharged, the ball striking In the right
breast of his 8 year old brother, killing him
instantly.
The census taker of Grant county reports
majority of votes for Ulysses for county
seat. The total number of votes cast Is
1,074 The total number of inhabitants in
the county Is 2,716 and The taxable proper
ty 1884, 756.
Atchison county paid out for the main
taeance of its poor farm for 1886 ST.
142. SO, and for outside relief, including the
amount paid only by Mr.. Cloyse, chairman
of the city poor committee, last year 81
926 II, making a total of $5,06S 70.
On circus day at Santa Fe. Kansas, an
old man drove up into town In a wagon
upon which was thirty-five gallon barrel
Of whisky and several kegs Of wine and
commenced retailing right and left. He
did quite fair business before the officers
recovered from their surprise sufficiently to
take him in
Hailstones from Atchison have eminent
witnesses to prove them. Gov. Martin says
he will take an affidavit that he saw hail
stones as large as his fist and saw one meas
ured which was six inches In circumfer-
ence and the measurement was not taken
until twenty minutes after it fell and boy
had carried it In his hands for two blocks.
Senator ingalls, says the water In the Mis-
souri, was churned into a foam, the large
stones splashing the water fifteen feet high
as they fell.
Says the Parsons Sun: Tuesday was the
biggest melon day ever experienced here.
On that day thirty five cars containing 49,
900 melons were loaded and shipped. Eight
cents each is the average price, so that days
work will bring the growers 5000 The
freight averages $50 90 car, so the rail-
roads made $500; quite a neat little sum.
Twenty cars were loaded on Monday,
twenty-nine on Wednesday, and twenty
eight on Thursday From the beginning
of the season, July 10, up to Thursday
night 255 cars had been shipped Their
value is about S23, 600
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27
AN AWKWARD PREDICAr

It seems that after all the bio a -
of the Kansas City papers nvs, the et,,,
pendous exposition enterp ds,, ;,.uoura,ed
at that place some time ,so, the said enter
prise is not boundip' n the fore with the
aacriy character IL 90 % 'e eao ,oss s sneb as
the aforeme emu Led papers hal striven to
make a creoo Gus public believe had long
SINCE peeh assured beyond peradventure.
LII .nen plannings the managers Of the
unue' akipg planned deliberately and went
10 ~Ork on that scale. The all-important
.esideratum In obtaining a full measure of
success In this as in all other undertakings,
however, !. e. the necessary amount of
money, seems to have been overlooked or
left to take care of itself or as an
after consideration, and just In the midst
of the whirl and hustle Of their building
operations they suddenly discover that
there is an embarrassing lack Of funds to
keep things going. For some days the To-
cal papers have been whooping the boys
up, or at least have been trying to, with
their subscriptions. Announcement was
made that $50, 600 was necessary to be
raised forthwith to complete the buildings,
ETC., and public meetings and other expe-
dents have been resorted to to raise the
wind, so to speak. So far there appears to
be dead calm with no very encouraging
indications of breeze springing up soon.
We pity the distressed from whatever
cause, whether from divine dispensation,
accident or indiscretion On the part OF
the sufferer, and particularly so
our lordly neighbor over the border, since
failure of its big scheme under the cir
cumstances that environ it, or at least hop
ed for about the time of the completion of
the arrangements, would be embarrassing
not to say humiliating.
We commend Kansas City to the Wichita
way of doing things: Determine upon the
thing to be done and then do 1t; but never
bite off more'n you can chaw.
P. S.-We have not copyrighted the
foregoing and our friends up the way may
feel themselves at liberty to use it or such
part of it as may serve them best. No
charge.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

As between the ravages of the overall
eous, the destructive microbe recently dis
covered by German scientists In their
work of eating up the iron rails, and the
miscreants who pull the spikes that hold
the rails in position, railroad mansgers are
In straight and VIII have TO infuse little
diligence into their employees to check the
increasing recurrence of railroad wrecks or
there will be marked decrease In travel
by rail. There seems TO be little difficulty
TO ascertain the cause of wrecks and disas.
ters and there would be less in preventing
them with the exercise of proper precau-
uons.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27
DEAD AND ALIVE.

Recent dispatches report the death OF
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer.
1t was stated that he had been murdered by
savages, after having been deserted by his
retainers.
Later advices contend that he is alive
In either event some public mention of one
who fills so large space in contemporary
history will be pertinent.
Stanley was born in Wales in 1871. He
first won his spurs as correspondent in
the late civil war and in 1871 was sent by
the New York Herald to Zanzibar on a
mission to discover the lost traveller Living
stone, and the success of his mission gave
him a world wide fame. After months of
incredible hardships he discovered
Livingstone, who had been given up for
dead, at Ujiji, on lake Tanganyika. about
four hundred miles west, in the interior Of
Africa from Zanzibar, an island on the
east coast. Subsequently Stanley, by his
explorations of the lake region of equator
ial Africa, placed himself In the front rank
of African explorers. In 1879 he became
leader Of the Belgian International So
ciety's expedition for establishing of com
mercial and civilizlng stations on the Congo,
which river he had by his travels proved to
be Identical with the LualsAA Besides
featuring in the principal cities of Europe
and America, the explorer has written sew
eral works: How Found Livingstone,
which appeared h 1872; my Kslula."
1872; "Cocmassie and Magsdals," 1874;
Through the Dark Continent" 1878.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

The New York Herald interviewed a
large number of business men In different
branches of trade, and they show that
there has been gradual. but steady in
crease since the first of the year over bust
ness of the past few years. Many mer-
chants admit, however, that even better
would have been done if the money mar
ket had not been so close, while others hold
that this same closeness of the money mar,
ket has tended to solidify trade by restrict
ing undue speculation and infusing more
care and thought into the minds of those
who otherwise might have been tempted to
try and fly higher than the strength of
their wings warranted
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The Republicans Of sedgwick county, Kansas, VIII
na.a county convention for the purpose Of n1m MN
aflns candidates fo- the following onces 70 DC nleo
Cscpfy Treasurer.
Cx=tpsy Clerk.
Goanty Register OF Deeds
County Surveyor.
fss sownships AND wards WIN be entitled 70 the
FIRST Ward-Ntnefeen delegates.
second Ward-Thirteen delegates.
Third wsrd-Ten delegates,
fCuy7h Ward-Ffteen delegates.
1TH wsrd-Five DELEGATES.
Afsoo-Three delegates
Asesca-Four delegates.
DeiAno-Four delegates.
Iagte-Four delegates.
Hfse-Three delegates
0sesaey-six delegates
ofanf-sevep delegates
ssrden Plains, s-Th' ee eessspes.
Grand River-Thre[L< delegates
ayp<um.Feur eiegates.
afincas.Thre- Delegates.
kechi-si1 delegates.
LkHcoln-.four delegates.
Msnnef1-Three delegates.
1rop-seven deiefa less,e.
1oS;o-Three delegates
Rks ne-Five Delegates
PARK W-Three delegates.
sockford, D-Fohr delegates.
Rockford. M Three delegates
goIem-Four delegates.
Rsrman-Four delegates
vicaa-Three delegates.
Is Jcftte-seven delegates
Whco-Ffve delegates.
waller Center, v C.-Four delegates
Js.lay Center, 8 Three delegates.
TEE central con mittee recommended that the phi
ssssrs be held from to O'Clock p at the usual
ysrfnS place b each township, and IN the wards OF
goa city OF Wichita from TO O'Clock D. M, on
Wednesdsy, the 3lst day OF August
ne county convention viii be held In the Grand
Army hall. In the city OF Wichita, on Saturday the
q day OF September. 1884, commencing at 10 O'Clock
6. -.
The central committee also recommends that the
summaries In The first commission district elect dele
6zsS who Will nomiI ate commissioner for said dis
EA-f the adjournment OF the county convention
q order OF The Republican county central com
pRfsece. n. l. TAYLOR Chairman.
w. L. MoRKE, Secretary.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27
PRATT PULsATINGs.

| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
The building boom in the city of Pratt
still continues. Several of the buildings
are completed up to the second story and
the third is being built as rapidly as pos
sible. All Of these buildings are Of the
finest design, being pressed brick fronts
with carved stone caps and elegant cornice
work. These buildings are to be supplied
with fine elevators instead of stairways,
making it much more co10enient for par
ties in the second and third stories. These
buildings are all rented, corners at 1925
per month and inside rooms at 800 per
month, and still the demand Is I'M
supplied.
Parties from Medicine Lodge, St. John,
Kingman and Mcpherson have been here
seeking locations, but have to wait till
more buildings are erected before they can
secure business buildings suitable. Several
large three and four story buildings are
contracted for and will be built as soon as
material can be procured. besides some
fifteen fine buildings now being erected
there. There has been not less than four
hundred dwellings erected during the
spring and summer of 1887, and more are
being erected every day. The growth of
Pratt has been Miraculous, far. beyond the
conception of great many people who
have not been eye witnesses and know these
statements to be true. Pratt welcomed the
arrival Of the track layers into her midst
on Monday, the 22nd inst, with great eel
ebration. The band boys. followed by a
procession of nearly two thousand citizens,
marched up Main street to the fine Rock
Island depot, where they gave an exhibit
ton of some very fine music, This was
followed by fine supper for the "boys. !"
prepared by Pratt's enterprising citizens,
after which Hon. T. E. Simpson addressed
the immense throng of people who had as
sembled there, he being followed by a few
of Pratt's orators. This being over the
train pulled On and the people returned
to their homes, amid the cheers
from the Rock Island boys
of "Hurrah for Pratt May she
ever prosper as she richly deserves to. Thus
the feeling between the great Rock Island
corporation and the city of Pratt is one of
friendship. gratitude and harmony. The
contractor from Chicago who has charge
of the building Of the round house and
machine shops is here negotiating for ma
terial and help, and work will commence
at once On those buildings. Business is
splendid Real estate is looking up won
derfully, and everything points to one of
the biggest booms in Pratt this fall ever
known to southwestern Kansas Pratt has
the location, the money, the advantages in
many respects that the average Kansas
town can't boast Of, and the con-
clusion is that she is bound to
make one Of the great commercial centers
between the Mississippi river and the
mountains west of here. Pratt though
once attacked on every side has by her
honesty and square dealing made herself
Monarch of all she surveys" and her
rights are wholly undisputed by the little
'bergs' around her.
Thus she stands as a monument OF Kan
'as progress, city of push and energy not |
equaled In all Kansas by any city of the
'ame age and similar advantages.
"TooDLEs,"
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

A grand exposition of the resources of
Arkansas at Little Rock viii open October
25A, and close November 18th. Only the
natural, cultivated and manufactured
products of Arkansas are to be exhibited.
All the counties of the state are to be repre-.
sented and the enterprising men st the
helm say they are determined to make it
the greatest show Of natural productions
ever inside by any one state.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

Talking about clean sweeps" the forth
coming annual report of the first assistant
postmaster general will show that during
the year ended June 80, 1887, there were
1909 postmasters of all grades appointed,
or over forty day for every week day.
This makes the total Of changes under the
reform administration 1873. The total
number of postoflces of all grades July /,
1887. was SIS, 49,. And the result Is the
worst postal service the country has ever
had. since the railway postal service was
inaugurated.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

The milk of human kindness that nas
so long and uniformly tempered and toned
the usually clever and clear headed Globe
Democrat seems to be slightly curdled Of
late, as witness the following ebulition:
In the politics Of this country we have
the professional Irishmsn, the professional
German and the professional colored man.
Why not give professional American a
chance,
Our impression Is that the professional
American has had chance and has
gotten there" In goodehspe, too
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

The dairy product Of the United States
In 1886 was $260. 600, 600. wheat $3.50. 600
600; cotton 400, 0O0. 600; poultry $500. 600
600, nearly theee times as much IS the
dairy product and one third more than cot
ton, and yet some people despise the poul-
try business because 1t is small. Others
fear that 1t viii be overdone. But 50 long
as people live they will want breakfast
eggs. spring chickens and Sunday turkeys.
and the spring mattress Is yet 70 be invent
ed that will discount feather bed There
Il no danger Of over professionally.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

Iowa Republicans are made Of the right
kind Of stuff. At their state convention
Wednesday every county In the state was
represented but one, and there not single
contest That Is the spirit that secured the
party its grand victories the pas, quarter Of
century, and by which 1t must be ami
mated and led If 1t hopes to succeed In fu.
tire. Unity, harmony and activity means
victory.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

Announcement is made that President
Cleveland is to appear in the role ola bull
In china shop" metaphorically speaking,
tn Philadelphia on the 10Th Of September.
He has engaged TO meet number of liter
ary and scientific societies there.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

The largest barn in the world is probably
that of the Union Cattle company. of Chey-
enne, Neb.. near Omaha. 1t covers five
acres, cost $125, 600 and accommodates g.
$50 head Of cattle.
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

A touring Washington politician told a
New York reporter day or two ago that
the second week in September would see a
sweeping series of removals in the pension
office, the doomed heads including all the
special examiners in the New England,
western, middle and southern states who
have held over fr0H6sSe last Republican
Wichita eagle., 1887-08-27

The Wichita EAGLE is In error In locat-
ing Mr.. ingalls, woman suffrage speech at
Topeka. That speech was delivered at
Abtlene.-Topeka Commonwealth.
Stand corrected, and. beg the senator's
nordoo.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-10
Hastings Court Yesterday

Louis Johnson (colored) plead guilty OF
burglary. The jury brought in verdict
of five years in the penitentiary.
John II. Richardson (cOlored), charged
with burglary, plead guilty Of petty lar
ceny, and was sent to Jail for three
months.
Thomas Shelton (colored), indicted foI
burglary, was found guilty of petty lar
leny. jailed for three months.
Charles Braxton (colored), charged
with burglary. A nOlIe pr0Sequi was
entered, and Braxton was held in bail fol-
his good behavior for six months in the
sam Of $500.
John Bradley (colored), petty larceny
This was an appeal from the judgment
Of the Police Justice. The jury being
unable 70 agree they were discharged
and the case continued until next term.
Fleming Christian (colored), charged
with felonious assault upon Robert
Bridgewater, was tried and acquitted.
Charles Warner (colored), misdemeanor
The jury was unable to agree, and were
adjourned over until 10 o'clock this morn
ing.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-10
Death of "A WeII-known Gentleman.

Information was received in this city
Tuesday of the sudden death OF Mr..
Munford w. Radford. The sad event
occurred at his residence, Forest Depot,
Bedford county, last Monday. Mr.. Rad
ford was one Of the best known and most
respected citizens of that county, and
was the father of the estimable wife OF
our well-known and popular fellow. cltl-
zen. Mr.. Allen Talbot. In this sudden
bereavement Mrs. Talbot will have the
sympathy of all of her large circle of
friends.
The following is taken from the Lynch
burg Adgance.
"Mr. NJ. w. RadfoTd was the youngest
son of the late William Radford, who
was president of the Bank of Virginia,
of this city, for upwards of forty years.
MIR. RadfOrd was educated at the UNI
yersity of Virginia He represented the
county of Bedford in the Legislature for
four years most acceptably. He was gen
erous TO fault, and his kindly acts
to the poor in his county will long be
remembered by his many friends and
neighbors. He was twice married, his
first wife being Miss Read, of Bedford
county. and the second a Miss Summer
vile, of Richmond. The second wife
and eight children survive him, among
them son, who is at the University OF
Virginia. and daughter Mrs. Allen Tai.
bot of Richmond. His age was about IT
years"
The other Lynchburg papers speak in
the highest terms of the deceased, anc
his death is a matter of general regret.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-10

Mr.. Royal Fined and n Rule Issued
Against Him.

In the Hastings Court yesterday Mr.
Royal was tried on the charge OF practic,
ing law without license. Mr. Royal
had offered coupons for the payment OF
the license and stood upon his tender.
Mr.. Wyndham Meredith, who represented
the prosecution, asked the jury to bring
in verdict for the smallest fine as it was
intended to make this a test-case. This
was done; the amount of fine being as
sessed at $50.
Mr.. Royal will appeal to the Supreme
Court of this State and, should they re-
fuse to grant him writ of error Will
carry the matter into the Federal courts.
Judge Atkins also issued rule against
Mr. Royal, returnable next Monday, re-
curing him to show cause, if any he can,
why he should not be attached and pun
ished for contempt of court in intimida-
ting the grand jury by threatening to sue
all parties who were or should be con-
cerned in the bringing in of Indictments
against him for barratry.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-10
AT THE SOLDIERS HOME.
The Confederate ChapeI-The Memorial
Windows.

Windows.
The Confederate chapel is very nearly
completed. In fact the exterior is fin
ished, and work has been suspended on
the interior until the weather is more
settled, when it will be finished up and
furnished nicely and be ready for occu-
pancy.
The scheme to have memorial windows
is rapidly growing in favor Already
Mr. J. j. Montague has donated one to the
memory of Captain Henderson, and the
children of the late Major Louis j. Bos-
sioux intend TO have one erected to his
memory. Among others mentioned are
memorials of Captain Cayce, of the Pur-
cell Battery General r. 7. Moore and
Colonel j. r. Branch. 1t would be good
idea for every company or regiment to
have one as a memento of the dead. This
would not only be fitting tribute but
would make the chapel standing memo
rial of the lost cause. Let the matter be
agitated. Lee Camp, at least, should
have one Which company will start the
ball in so commendable movement?